Touch Pro 2 and Gmail: is it reliable?

[imnuts]

Originally Posted by PPCFreak

only problem I have been having with GMail is getting the same email over and over again.

I get it once on Gmail (by checking it on the web) and my TP2 checks for new mail every 1hr.

I pulls the emails fine.
I read them on the phone.
Delete them if need be.
Then wait another hr and I get the same email that I just read (and even deleted) as new email.

Anyone else getting this?
Its getting really annoying. May have to pull the account off my phone.

I get that on the account I have setup as IMAP. I think that it has to be marked read first before you can fully delete it. If you read a message, send/receive, then delete the message and send/receive again, it shouldn't give you a duplicate. I'm guessing it's a WM bug.

[tyhart44]

I was having some issues with Gmail syncing as well but I think I figured it out. See my thread here, hopefully something in there helps you - http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-...ows-6-5-a.html

[ctiger]

Originally Posted by imnuts

I get that on the account I have setup as IMAP. I think that it has to be marked read first before you can fully delete it. If you read a message, send/receive, then delete the message and send/receive again, it shouldn't give you a duplicate. I'm guessing it's a WM bug.

Originally Posted by PPCFreak

only problem I have been having with GMail is getting the same email over and over again.

I get it once on Gmail (by checking it on the web) and my TP2 checks for new mail every 1hr.

I pulls the emails fine.
I read them on the phone.
Delete them if need be.
Then wait another hr and I get the same email that I just read (and even deleted) as new email.

Anyone else getting this?
Its getting really annoying. May have to pull the account off my phone.

I have the same problem using pop3. For me, I don't delete them on the phone, I will go to gmail from browser and archive the mails. I don't think it's the best way to handle this, but if you leave the mails in the inbox, the phone will pull it every time you sync. In the gmail settings, I set it as after pulled by pop3, archive the mail, but it won't do it automatically, at least on my phone. I also notice that, my outlook on PC will pull out all the mails that it didn't receive before.

[shaggylive]

new mail in gmail's inbox will always show up as a new 'unread' message on the phone. the glitch is somewhere in the communication of the "Read" status. some could blame gmail since ms has been in the game far longer, and it was google that decided to re-invent some things.. (or maybe it was our patent system forcing the re-invention of things not broke)

[ctiger]

I have to correct my statement. I thought I'm using POP3, but actually the default server was IMAP in the HTC's mail program. AND, although there's a setting to archive mails after pull from POP3, there's no such setting for IMAP on the gmail settings, means google server won't archive the mails automatically after our phone pulls the mail from IMAP. I tried to setup POP3, but because google uses different port settings which isn't easily changeable on HTC email program, I can't really use that.

[shaggylive]

the 'proper' way to use imap with gmail is to set the phone to delete messages off the server, that way they are removed from the inbox, but stay in the archive.
obviously that doesn't seem very reliable, so I just stick with pop.

[PPCFreak]

How do you setup Gmail on an TP2 with WM6.5.x?
I can only set it up as IMAP4.

[shaggylive]

the same way i've been setting it up since the mogul, sashimi provisioning files.

anyway, I just looked and you should be able to manually set up pop by choosing "other" and putting in the server info yourself.